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The film tells the true story of Justin Yoder (played by Muniz), a young boy born with spina bifida and hydrocephalus. Justin uses a wheelchair. He lives with his overprotective parents and brother, Seth (Patrick Levis), who is a jock. Due to his disability, he desperately wants to find something he can do that will make him feel special. For guidance, he turns to God, who in the film takes form as a famous race car driver Bobby Wade, during his journey.

After discovering a soapbox racer in his neighbor's shed, Justin hopes to participate in that sport and eventually finds a love and talent for it. To accommodate his disability, his father and their neighbor, Vic, build a customized racer with a hand brake (which they call the "Justin Brake"). Meanwhile, Seth feels that his parents focus too much on Justin rather than giving both equal treatment. However, he has a change of heart when Justin crashes during a race.

The Yoders are confronted with the idea that Justin's involvement with the sport may be hazardous to his health. At the end of the film, he asks God if people are perfect when they go to Heaven. In response, he shows him a vision of it where there are people with and without wheelchairs, all together, to which he happily replies "perfect".

As a tribute to Justin, live footage of him is shown before the closing credits.

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Wheelchair
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A wheelchair, often abbreviated to just chair, is a chair with wheels, used when walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury, or disability. Wheelchairs come in a variety of formats to meet the specific needs of their users. They may include specialized seating adaptions, individualized controls, and may be specific to particular activities, as seen with sports wheelchairs and beach wheelchairs. The earliest records of wheeled furniture are an inscription found on a slate in China. The first records of wheeled seats being used for transporting disabled people date to three centuries later in China, the Chinese used early wheelbarrows to move people as well as heavy objects. A distinction between the two functions was not made for several hundred years, around 525 CE, when images of wheeled chairs made specifically to carry people begin to occur in Chinese art. Later records show the use of technology in Europe by the Renaissance. The invalid carriage or Bath chair brought the technology into more common use from around 1760, in 1887, wheelchairs were introduced to Atlantic City so invalid tourists could rent them to enjoy the Boardwalk. Soon, many healthy tourists also rented the decorated rolling chairs and servants to them as a show of decadence. In 1933 Harry Jennings and his disabled friend Herbert Everest, both engineers, invented the first lightweight, steel, collapsible wheelchair. Everest had previously broken his back in a mining accident, Everest and Jennings saw the business potential of the invention and went on to become the first mass-market manufacturers of wheelchairs. Their x-brace design is still in use, albeit with updated materials. There are a variety of types of wheelchair, differing by propulsion method, mechanisms of control. Some wheelchairs are designed for everyday use, others for single activities. The iBot is perhaps the best known example of this in recent years, a self-propelled manual wheelchair incorporates a frame, seat, one or two footplates and four wheels, usually two caster wheels at the front and two large wheels at the back. There will generally also be a seat cushion. As this causes friction and heat build-up, particularly on long downslopes, everyday manual wheelchairs come in two major varieties, folding or rigid. Folding chairs are generally low-end designs, whose predominant advantage is being able to fold, however this is largely an advantage for part-time users who may need to store the wheelchair more often than use it

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Gravity racer
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A gravity racer or soapbox is a motorless vehicle which is raced on a downhill road either against the clock or against another competitor. Although most are built for the purpose of recreation, some gravity racing teams take the more seriously. They are propelled by gravity and can achieve upwards of 112 km/h. In the United Kingdom a gravity racer car has been called a buggy, trolley and it is currently popularly called a soapbox. In Scotland and northern England it has also called a bogie, cartie/cairtie. In Wales it is referred to as a gambo. In Australia they are called billy-carts, in addition to being built by children, there are organised competitions and races that often engage the enthusiasm of adults. However, these are usually entered into in a spirit of fun rather than serious competition, often they will be fund-raisers for charity. Many cities have permanent tracks where drivers compete for prizes, a typical Gravity racer cart is usually made of steel, and has 4 wheels, arranged as a fixed rear axle, and a steerable front beam axle - usually with a very simple single central pivot. A seat is arranged at the back, and perhaps the area is enclosed. More sophisticated designs might employ an enclosed body. The types of wheels employed vary according to what can be obtained easily - wheels from baby carriages, pushchairs, prams, ready-made wheels are also available from hardware suppliers. Steering is typically actuated using a rope connected to the ends of the steerable beam, more sophisticated steering methods are sometimes seen. Brakes are also used, and most soap-box cart racing contests require these. Often a simple friction brake operated by a lever which bears on one of the tyres, Gravity racer carts are unpowered, and are either pushed by willing helpers, or are run down a suitable slope. Races will usually take place downhill and the most efficient and skillfully driven cart will win - gravity applying equally to all, Gravity racer carts also make great construction projects for children, requiring only an intuitive sense of engineering, and a few basic construction skills. There are also predesigned kits available, though for many this defeats the purpose of the exercise, recently, more advanced Gravity racers are beginning to emerge. Examples of such include the Lotus 119c and the Formula Gravity VXR Nimbus

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Frankie Muniz
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Francisco Frankie Muñiz IV is an American actor, musician, writer, producer, race car driver, and band manager. In the early-to-mid 2000s, he garnered fame as the star of the Fox television family sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, in 2003, he was considered one of Hollywoods most bankable teens. In 2008, he put his career on hold to pursue an open wheel racing career. He competed in the Atlantic Championship, in 2012, he joined the band Kingsfoil as a drummer, however, he left the band in 2014. Muniz was born and grew up in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey and his father, Francisco III, was a restauranteur, and his mother, Denise, was a nurse. His father is Puerto Rican and his mother is of Italian and he has an elder sister, Cristina. Muniz was first discovered at the age of eight, at a talent show in Raleigh, North Carolina and he was cast as Tiny Tim in a local production of A Christmas Carol. Shortly after, his parents divorced, and he moved to Burbank, California. He appeared in commercials and made his debut in the made-for-television movie To Dance With Olivia. In that same year, he appeared in the CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of What the Deaf Man Heard, a small role in the film Lost & Found led to his breakout role as the title character on Malcolm in the Middle. Fox premiered Linwood Boomers Malcolm in the Middle, starring Muniz, on January 9,2000, as a replacement. The premiere episode was watched by 23 million people and the episode by 26 million. He was nominated for the Emmy Awards in 2001, and received The Hollywood Reporter Young Star Award for his work in the series, throughout his television career, Muniz made guest appearances on the shows Lizzie McGuire, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and MADtv. His first starring role in a film was as Willie Morris in the 2000 family period piece My Dog Skip. That same year, he provided the voice of Domino in the 2000 video game 102 Dalmatians, Puppies to the Rescue. The following year, he contributed a character voice to the animal cast of the film Dr. Dolittle 2. He had a hit with the 2002 release Big Fat Liar, Muniz was also part of the ensemble for the gang film Deuces Wild, released that same year. In 2003, he made an appearance as Chers underage boyfriend in Stuck on You

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Disney Channel
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Disney Channels programming consists of original first-run television series, theatrically-released and original made-for-cable movies and select other third-party programming. Disney Channel – which formerly operated as a premium service – originally marketed its programs towards families during the 1980s, most of Disney Channels original programming is aimed at kids ages 9–16, while its Disney Junior programs are targeted at children 8 years and under. As of January 2016, Disney Channel is available to approximately 93.9 million pay television households in the United States. The Disney Sunday Movie, a version of the Walt Disney anthology television series, began on the channel in 1986 concurrent with ABCs version until 1988 and NBCs The Magical World of Disney. Disney Channel Original Movies series of made for television movies started on August 23,1997 with Northern Lights supplanting the previous Disney Channel Premiere Films banner.2 million viewers. The Cheetah Girls films were also successful in terms of merchiandise. The first film in 2003 was the first made-for-TV movie musical in Disney Channels history, and had a worldwide audience of over 84 million viewers. The second movie was the most successful of the series, bringing in 8.1 million viewers in the U. S. Disney Junior – Disney Junior is a block that features shows targeted at children aged 3–9. Which debuted on February 14,2011, it airs Monday through Fridays from 8,00 a. m. –2,00 p. m. and weekends from 6,00 to 9,00 a. m. Disney Junior carries one of the few programs on Disney Channel that feature classic Disney characters as of 2013, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Other programs currently seen in this block include Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Sheriff Callies Wild West, Sofia the First, Miles from Tomorrowland, The Lion Guard and Doc McStuffins. C. Saturdays from 8, 00-11,00 p. m. and Sundays from 7, Saturday nights feature repeats of recent episodes of the channels original series or an occasional film telecast. Encores of the respective nights programs typically air between 11,00 p. m. and 2,30 a. m, Eastern/Pacific each night during that weekend. Out of This World Weekend – a weekend of shows having space themed episodes, Weekend – a weekend of shows having mystery themed episodes. This was the first special weekend, Summer Adventure Weekend – a weekend of shows with vacation themed episodes. Flash Forward Weekend – a weekend of shows related to time travel, freaky Freakend – a weekend of shows featuring paranormal themed episodes. April Fuel Week – a week of shows featuring special episodes, Weekend – a weekend of shows featuring guest stars from other Disney Channel shows, occurs mostly in April. Programming seen during Disney Nighttime included older feature films, along with original concert specials, variety specials, mystery Night – ran each Tuesday evening starting at 9,00 p. m. Eastern/Pacific from 1990 to 1993, focused on mystery films from the 1930s to the 1960s

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Directors Guild of America
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The Directors Guild of America is an entertainment guild which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad. Founded as the Screen Directors Guild in 1936, the merged with the Radio. As a union that seeks to organize an individual profession, rather than multiple professions across an industry, the DGA is a craft union. It represents directors and members of the team that representation includes all sorts of media, such as film, television, documentaries, news, sports, commercials. The Guild has various training programs whereby successful applicants are placed in various productions, as of 2017, the guild had more than 16,000 members. The DGA headquarters are located on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, with offices in New York and Chicago and coordinating committees in San Francisco, Chicago. Suspended members pay dues but are ineligible to vote in the union, DGA contracts also cover some non-members, known as agency fee payers. These non-members currently number 172, or comparatively about 1% of the size of the unions membership, Guild members are generally prevented from working for companies that have not signed an agreement with the DGA. This sometimes leads production companies which have no agreement to form new companies, purely for the purpose of making a particular film. The DGA negotiates minimum compensation levels that must be paid by the companies, many DGA members have agents who may negotiate rates above the minimums for their clients. The DGA agreements also secure residual payments for the reuse of members’ work in film, television, other than wages and basic working conditions, the DGA has a particular role in protecting the creative rights of film and TV directors. Such protections that the guild provides include defining the role, ensuring, with examples, the principle of one director to a picture. Generally each of these protections is to offset the power that producers can have over a director during the film-making process. The DGA hosts the annual DGA Awards, an important precursor to the Academy Awards, in its 69-year history, the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film has been a near perfect barometer for the Best Director Academy Award. Only seven times since the DGA Awards inception has the DGA Award winner not won the corresponding Academy Award, honorees are awarded with a statue, manufactured by New York firm, Society Awards. The rule is waived only for directorial teams recognized by the DGA who have a history of working together, examples include The Wachowskis, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Hughes brothers, Brothers Strause, and the Coen brothers. The Coens for years divided credit, with Ethan taking producing credit, Joel taking directing credit, in the past, the DGA has also engaged in disputes with the Writers Guild of America over possessory credits, first used in the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation. The WGA tried to limit possessory credits to writers, but has always been opposed by the DGA

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Tuc Watkins
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Charles Curtis Tuc Watkins III is an American actor, known for his roles as David Vickers on One Life to Live and Bob Hunter on Desperate Housewives. Watkins was born in Kansas City, Kansas, to Charles Curtis Watkins II, a salesman, and he has a younger sister Courtney born in 1968. Watkins came out as gay on April 26,2013 in an interview on Marie with Marie Osmond, in December 2012, Watkins had twins, Catchen and Curtis, via a surrogate named Melissa. Watkins started his career with guest appearances on television series including Sisters, Baywatch. He portrayed con-man David Vickers on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live from 1994 to 1996, Watkins went on to star as Malcolm Laffley on the Showtime series Beggars and Choosers for its two-season run from 1999 to 2001. In 1999, he made his debut in I Think I Do, a small budget independent screwball romantic comedy, playing Sterling Scott. On October 21,2007, Watkins made his first appearance on ABCs primetime series Desperate Housewives as Bob Hunter, on November 4,2007 Watkins guest-starred on the Cold Case season 5 episode Worlds End. Tuc Watkins joined the cast of Desperate Housewives as a series regular,2016 Retake Jonathan Feature Film Tuc Watkins at the Internet Movie Database

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Humanitas Prize
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The Humanitas Prize is an award for film and television writing intended to promote human dignity, meaning, and freedom. It began in 1974 with Father Ellwood Bud Kieser—also the founder of Paulist Productions—but is generally not seen as directed toward religious cinema or TV. The prize is distinguished from similar honors for screenwriters in that a cash award. Journalist Barbara Walters once said, What the Nobel Prize is to literature and the Pulitzer Prize is to journalism, beginning as primarily a television award, the first Humanitas Prize winners were announced on the Today Show. Kieser, Ray Bradbury, and Robert Abernathy announced the first winners in 1975, the fellowship was started after David Angell and his wife, Lynn Angell, were killed in the crash of Flight 11 in the September 11,2001 attacks. The Kieser Award, a kind of lifetime achievement award, was established after Keisers death in late 2000. When the award was established, the committee determined that the writer was the source of the most humanizing values in any program, in 2005 Humanitas winners included Hotel Rwanda and The West Wing. The most wins—four—by any single program was for writers of the TV series M*A*S*H, Larry Gelbart,1976, Alan Alda,1980, life with Louie was the only show to win three times in the childrens animation category. Writers who have won three times include Aaron Sorkin, David E. Kelley, and Marshall Herskovitz, while at least four writers have had back-to-back wins, it is not unusual for several years to pass between one writers winning the prize again. In 2010, Humanitas introduced a new program called New Voices, the program pairs inexperienced writers with Humanitas board members to sell their work to the television networks. In season 4, episode 19 of Boston Legal, Carl Sack, played by John Larroquette, stated, Well, there goes my Humanitas Award, after a long rant against organized religion. This was an instance of breaking the Fourth Wall, as John Larroquettes short-lived eponymous sitcom won the award in 1995, in the 2007 Sopranos episode Stage 5, Tony Sopranos nephew, Christopher Moltisanti, asks J. T. Dolan about his Human-itis award. J. T. corrects him, correctly pronouncing Hu-ma-ni-tas, after which Christopher whacks him on the head with the award, J. T. was played by actor and producer Tim Daly, a previous Humanitas award recipient. The Sopranos creator David Chase is also a recipient of the Humanitas award. The Humanitas Prize site The Humanitas Prize, Encouraging Hollywoods Best, profile by Jack Wintz for American Catholic

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Under Wraps (film)
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Under Wraps is a 1997 television film, and is considered to be the first Disney Channel Original Movie by the Disney Channel. It was included by the network in its 100 Original Movies celebration from May–June 2016, three 12-year-old kids discover a mummy in the basement of a dead mans house. It comes alive due to the conjunction of the moonlight during that time of the month and they are scared of him at first, but with time discover he is friendly, if clumsy and confused. The kids name the mummy Harold, and decide he will take up residence in one kids bedroom. After paying a visit to their Halloween-obsessed friend, Bruce, they discover that if the mummy is not put back in his coffin before midnight on Halloween, the mummy will cease to exist. However, the sarcophagus is in the hands of the man, known as Mr. Kubat. Upon finding out that the mummy has escaped from the coffin, he orders his henchmen to look for the mummy and bring it back in time, on top of that, there are a few other obstacles that follow by. For one thing, Harolds unusual appearance may attract unwanted attention as Halloween night draws closer, meanwhile, they find out that Harold used to be in love with another mummy who comes alive at the end. It is currently available on iTunes and Amazon Video, under Wraps at the Internet Movie Database

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You Lucky Dog
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You Lucky Dog is a 1998 Disney Channel Original Movie, first aired on June 27,1998. It stars Kirk Cameron and was directed by Paul Schneider, Jack Morgan is a dog therapist, once famous for being able to read his dogs mind. Although Jack cannot read the minds of dogs, he still operates a canine mind-reading business. Mr. Mooney and his wife bring their dog to see Jack, dissatisfied with Jacks inability to read his dogs mind, Mr. Mooney, who is a friend of the city mayor, threatens to have his business closed down. After the Mooneys leave, a man named Clyde Windsor brings his dog, Lucky, to see Jack. Jack informs Windsor that Lucky is bothered by three individuals that live with him, two weeks later, the city closes down Jacks business. Simultaneously, Windsors personal driver, Calvin Bridges, informs Jack that Windsor has died, Windsors lawyer, Allison Kent, reads Windsors will to his niece and two nephews, Margaret, Lyle, and Rueben. The will reveals that the three individuals receive nothing from the estate of Windsor, who chose Lucky to inherit his money, Jack meets with Allison and is informed that he is Windsors chosen trustee for Luckys $64 million trust fund. Jack agrees to move into the mansion and become Luckys new owner, as required by the trust fund, thus forcing Lyle, Margaret and Rueben to move out. Windsors relatives meet with Mr. Phister, a lawyer who will only take the case to trial for 30 percent of the money in their uncles trust fund. Windsors relatives, who are used to living a lifestyle, instead plot to regain the mansion. One night, Jack begins acting like a dog after Lucky becomes overly excited about dog bones he had buried in the mansions backyard. Jack joins Lucky in his search for bones, and later tears up furniture with Lucky, the next day, to help Lucky get over the death of his owner, Jack and Calvin take him to a local shopping mall. At the malls pet store, Jack signs additional paperwork for Allison and also meets her daughter, Nicole, however, Allison tells her daughter that their apartment is not a suitable living environment for a puppy. In the malls food court, Lucky becomes excited at the scent of food, Jacks mind once again transforms into that of a dogs. Jack and Lucky devour leftover food on tables and inside a trash bin, after numerous failed attempts, Windsors relatives agree to Phisters expensive offer to take the case to trial and have Jack declared mentally incompetent. At the courthouse, Jack demonstrates his ability to read Luckys mind, Jack discovers through Luckys thoughts that Lyle likely poisoned his uncle. Lyle threatens the courtroom with a gun after Jack accuses him of murdering his uncle, Lucky knocks Lyle over, and he is arrested along with Margaret and Rueben

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Brink!
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Brink. is a 1998 Disney Channel Original Movie set in the backdrop of aggressive inline skating. On the first day of school, the Soul-Skaters and Team X-Bladz race on school grounds, Boomer, a skater for Team X-Bladz, is seriously injured during the race, while Brink and Val are both caught and suspended. Brink learns that his family is in trouble, his father Ralph has been on disability for six months. Brink goes against the wishes of Ralph and his friends and joins Team X-Bladz for $200 a week, Brink keeps this a secret from his friends and family. Brinks father gets him a job at Pup-N-Suds, a dog grooming business, brinks friends discover that he has been skating for Team X-Bladz to train for an upcoming local competition. Brinks friends feel he betrayed them and choose to ignore him upon discovering his alignment with Team X-Bladz, the Soul-Skaters and Team X-Bladz later agree to a downhill race, with Gabriella against Brink. Although Val offers his friendship to Brink in an attempt to keep him with X-Bladz and he tries to warn Brink not to go through with the race as Val has something bad planned for him and encourages him to leave X-Bladz while he still can. During the race, Val intentionally sabotages Gabriellas part of the course by tossing gravel onto the road, Gabriella wipes out big and sustains minor injuries. At this point, all of the Soul-Skaters disown Brink as their friend, they call him a sell-out, later, Ralph learns about the accident from Gabriellas mother and has a heart-to-heart talk with Brink. Brink finally confesses his reasons for joining Team X-Bladz and wanting to be a somebody from it. He admits that though he got what he wanted, it has gotten him into a mess, as he has lost his friends, Ralph reveals that although the family is in financial trouble, Brink should not be skating for money and rather for fun. Inspired by his father, Brink meets Val at the local boardwalk, Brink reveals his disgust with Val for sabotaging the race and injuring Gabriella. This leads to an argument between both boys and Brink to toss a milkshake in Vals face, Val calls Brink a coward and a traitor in itself, revealing that he did not have the nerve to finish the race and in the process has no friends. Boomer disagrees and calls Val out for who he is inside and he reveals his own friendship with Brink and why he left X-Bladz after his injury. Boomer admits that he had witnessed Val cheating in past competitions, Brink closes the argument by telling Val off that he is not a true skater for skating for money rather than fun and challenges him at the in-line skating competition. Val readily accepts his challenge and leaves with the other X-Bladz, Boomer walks away with Brink, thanking him for showing Boomer the meaning to skate for fun and will show his support for him. In the days before the competition, Brink meets his friends at the skate yard, after giving them new skates and equipment, Brink tells them of his plan to sponsor the team under the name Team Pup N Suds. They accept Brink as their friend again, as friends once again, they compete in the competition with their families support